Hayao Miyazaki (Japan, 1992). (Kurenai no buta). Ages 9 and up. Marco, a (literally) pig-headed pilot, hunts “air pirates” over the late-1920s Adriatic in this whimsical wartime adventure. (93 mins)

Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1930). Archival print! John Wayne had his first starring role as a Missouri-to-Oregon wagon train scout in this breathtakingly scenic 1930 Western, a trailblazing achievement in widescreen cinematography. (122 mins)

Burgess Meredith (U.S., 1949). Archival Print! In the second adaptation of Simenon's La tête d'un homme, Burgess Meredith directs Charles Laughton as Inspector Maigret, and himself as Maigret's prey, in a bizarrely menacing Parisian cat-and-mouse game. (97 mins)

Raoul Walsh (U.S., 1945). Walsh's down-and-dirty account of a paratroop mission to knock out a Japanese radar station deep in the Burmese jungle remains one of the most exciting combat movies of WWII. With Errol Flynn. (142 mins)

Marcel Carné (France, 1950). Jean Gabin plays a middle-aged restaurateur falling slowly in love with his mistress's young sister in Carné's adaptation of Simenon's complex love story. “All in all, La Marie du port is a delight. It is subtle, witty, and civilized” (New Yorker). (85 mins)

Jaromil Jires (Czechoslovakia, 1971). (A Pozdravuji Vlastovsky). Jires, famed for The Joke and Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, here adapts the experiences of a female Czech resistance fighter during WWII, who was imprisoned by the Nazis and sentenced to death. “Communicates an effect of spiritual intensity” (Peter Hames). (86 mins)

Stefan Uher (Czechoslovakia, 1972). (Javor a Juliana). Three wandering musicians fashion instruments out of a maple tree haunted by the spirit of a lovelorn girl, and are cursed as a result, in this fairy tale-cum-social allegory from Slovak director Uher (Sunshine in a Net). (92 mins)

Phil Karlson (U.S., 1957). Archival Print! Eddie Rico thinks he's finally out of the mob, but family ties (and “family” ties) soon draw him back in. Based on Simenon's Les frères Rico, Karlson's hardboiled noir rewrites the greeting-card sentiments of fifties family values into a treatise on entrapment and betrayal. (92 mins)